Although Action Man and Barbie tend to take a backseat in favor of electronic gadgets nowadays, there’s still a little place in our nostalgic hearts for the odd action figurine – particularly when it is of legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who passed away three months ago to pancreatic cancer.
Christmas is always going to be a big time for companies like Apple and Google. With gifts being given the world over, there's a high probability that a good chunk of them run either Apple's iOS or Google's Android. Both have their own application stores.
Apple will be holding a special one-day shopping event in celebration of the Lunar new year in select countries, Redmond Pie has learned. Details after the jump!
If sources close to the company are to be believed, then New York will soon be the welcoming the fruit company in with open arms, playing host to what is reported to be a small scale media event. Moving away from their usual home in Cupertino and San Francisco, sources close to the alleged event claim that the company will invade the Big Apple toward the end of the month in order to host an event centered around a media related announcement.
You've heard of the Apple iPhone right? You know, the revolutionary device released in 2007, that changed the way we think about smartphones and pretty much made sure that other manufacturers had to raise their game when it came to cell phone design?
We are coming to the end of the Christmas period which generally means that pockets are empty, credit cards are at the limit and households contain a large number of happy people who have been on the receiving end of some generous gifts. If sales figures and trends are anything to go by, it seems that a lot of people are giving the gift of consumer electronics this year which inevitably means smartphones and tablets would have been sitting nicely wrapped under the tree.
For those of you who frequently use Twitter and are involved in the iOS jailbreaking scene, it may be old news to you that developers are making progress on getting iPhone and iPad applications to work natively on the Apple TV when connected to a high definition television set.
It's been a massive year in the tech world, with so many huge stories coming out of everyone's favorite companies. Be it Apple, Google, Microsoft or one of the many other players in the space, someone, somewhere has been busy making the news.
Whilst Apple has spent much of 2011 arguing patent issues in a just but often petty ongoing back and forth with Samsung, one website in particular has been overtly undercutting the Cupertino company of potentially millions.
Step forward Sir Jonathan Ive. That is how Apple's head of design will now be able to officially introduce himself after being made a knight commander of the British empire in the new years honours list. Jonathan is famous around the world as the man who led the design teams who came up with the aesthetics and form factor behind the iMac, Powerbook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone and the iPad.
